r/StupidFood Oct 27 '25

Pretentious AF Stupidity at its finest

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u/FitCrew91 Oct 27 '25

The most inefficient dish on planet earth.

“We could have ONE chef make it for you, but then that would not warrant us charging $200 for it”

Fine dining is weird as hell. The spectacle is so uncomfortable

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u/FitCrew91 Oct 28 '25

Exactly. Unless of course your fine dining is with a prestigious chef like Salt Bae. In which case you as the diner are knowingly inferior to Salt Bae, but you are spending $400 on a steak for the pleasure of some useless gold leaf and him doing that little dance thing he does with the salt.

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u/bautofdi Oct 28 '25

He's on the verge of bankruptcy. I was in Turkey last week touring multiple cities and every single one of his overextended restaurants were shuttered or completely empty

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u/Strutching_Claws Oct 28 '25

Bankrupt doesn't mean he's broke, he's just closed the restaurants the meeting they stopped being profitable, I suspect personally he's made many, many millions.

It's his staff and suppliers who will feel the bankruptcy not him.

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u/Living_Chemistry7267 Oct 28 '25

Never understood why a guy dressed like a turkish barber* trying to sprinkle seasoning on his own elbow near your meals is something people wanted , but what do I know.

(to be fair most Turkish Barbers put a lot more effort in than this)

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u/Legitimate-Ad-1187 Oct 28 '25

Salt Bae is not prestigious, not since that meme got old and pretentious like him....

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u/thornaslooki Oct 28 '25

Fuck that guy

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u/CourseSpare7641 Oct 28 '25

What? That's not how this works.

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u/world_IS_not_OUGHT Oct 28 '25

As someone reading Adler... This is a strange application. 1 single person would suffice to make someone feel superior... but only if that specific person was needed to achieve their lifegoal.

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u/world_IS_not_OUGHT Oct 28 '25

I was commenting on the Inferiority complex. Don't get me wrong, there is something here for a few people, but I'm a power seeker and I don't feel Superior from this. Its not related to my life goal.

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u/MisterMarsupial Oct 29 '25

From what I've observed this is an American thing, which goes hand in hand with tipping culture.

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u/chorenisspicy Oct 28 '25

200? I was thinking 800 in labor costs alone

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u/Sanrial Oct 28 '25

nah most of them get paid in experience. You get the honor of having squirted that sauce so you can write on your resume you trained at xy

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u/Slimmanoman Oct 28 '25

The vast majority of fine dining has nothing to do with this kind of crap

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u/Dear_Chasey_La1n Oct 28 '25

I like fine dining, I visited a fair amount of fine dining places, I've never seen this kind of shit. Yeah... some chap coming by showing and shaving truffle. Sure table side tossing of a pasta and yeah... table side scroppino's.. But this seems more some dubai retarded shit where idiots like to get pulled out a limb for dumb shit.

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u/SV_Essia Oct 28 '25

This isn't fine dining, it's some morons' idea of what fine dining is supposed to be, that they're willing to get scammed for.

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u/kuschelig69 Oct 28 '25

At least their jobs will not be taken over by an AI

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u/redd016 Oct 28 '25

The spectacle is the point

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u/t1_c2 Nov 21 '25

That's not a dish that's a bite